KING: Theres a huge education level drop-off with the Trump cabinet picks

[babylonsister]

KING: There’s a huge education level drop-off with the Trump cabinet picks

Shaun King
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Thursday, December 15, 2016, 12:26 PM


On Tuesday night, Ta-Nehisi Coates made a guest appearance with Trevor Noah on “The Daily Show” to discuss “My President Was Black” — his brilliant reflection on the Obama presidency. On Wednesday, The Daily Show posted a memed quote from Coates that has been liked over 230,000 times.

It says this:

If I have to jump six feet to get the same thing that you have to jump two feet for — that’s how racism works.

To be President, Obama had to be scholarly, intelligent, President of the Harvard Law Review, the product of some of our greatest educational institutions, capable of talking to two different worlds.

Donald Trump had to be rich and white. That’s the difference.

Back in 1999, Trump considered running for president and said that he would choose Oprah to be his running mate. The headline on Oct. 8, 1999 read, "I want to be the Prez."

And immediately, it got me curious to find out what the education level of the incoming Trump administration is compared to the Obama administration. What I found is stark and deeply revealing. In fact, the most educated man in the Trump administration is the lone black man — Dr. Ben Carson. If anything, that alone confirms some of what Coates was saying — that a black man has to jump six feet to reach the same thing white folk have to jump two feet for.

It starts from the top down. As Coates noted, Obama earned his B.A. from Columbia University and his law degree from Harvard — where he was the president of the Harvard Law Review.

Donald Trump will be the first President of the United States in 25 years to not have a graduate degree of any kind. Bill Clinton was a Rhodes Scholar and had a law degree from Yale University. Even George W. Bush had a Harvard MBA. Trump has B.S. in economics from University of Pennsylvania, but no advanced education.

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[yeoman6987]

1. If that was only trumps problem.....his negatives are endless

[Kingofalldems]

9. And his supporters seem to plagiarize a little much.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/laurie-kilmartin/monica-crowley-caught-pla_b_110568.html



"....when Monica came back

[Lucinda]

2. ...

[cornball 24]

3. Trump has a B.S. in B.S. In addition, he must have his kiddies around him to translate

simple declarative sentences into Drumpfese.

[eppur_se_muova]

4. Rick Perry flunked Organic Chemistry in college. His predecessors are MIT professors ...

including a Nobel Laureate.

[etherealtruth]

8. This sickens me

[progressoid]

5. See!! You libruls are just being snooty and eleetist.

Noah didn't have a college degree and he built a boat and save the world!

[Docreed2003]

6. Thats funny...

But I'm pretty sure I've heard evangelicals say something along those lines in Sunday school as a kid!

[AngryAmish]

7. Yet Mr. Coates dropped out of college...

[babylonsister]

10. Last I checked, he never ran for prez.

But he is certainly more thoughtful and seemingly more educated than dt could ever think about being.

[etherealtruth]

11. Is it your your understanding Coates wants a cabinet position?

.... wants to head the AEC? ... or some other post where explicit technical knowledge is necessary?

I don't have a PhD in chem but but I feel quite qualified to be terrified related to his lack of education and demonstrable knowledge.

[Cha]

12. Rich, white, sexual predator and a bully Blowhard.

[elmac]

13. Theres a huge education level drop-off

for those who voted for sniffles

[bucolic_frolic]

14. Government of the Stupid, By the Stupid, For the Stupid

You wouldn't turn to any of them for raw brain power

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

15. Trump's supporters consider that a virtue

They're proud of their stupidity.

[oberliner]

16. Neither Carter, Reagan, nor HW Bush had graduate degrees of any kind

Nor does Bernie Sanders, for that matter.

Sanders, who received a political-science degree in 1964, has said that he was a mediocre student because he found the classroom boring and irrelevant—and that he learned “infinitely more on the streets and in the community.”

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/10/12/the-populist-prophet

[Blaukraut]

17. Republicans are proud of their idiots. The dumber the better.

That way, they can appear non-threatening while they fleece you for all that you own.